Crossword Bebop » Clip of the Day http://www.crosswordbebop.com Improvisations based on Selected Crosswords throughout the Anglosphere. Quite possibly the first Anglospheric crossword blog... Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:33:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Clip of the Day – Don’t Sing Me The Blues by Miles Davis http://www.crosswordbebop.com/2009/11/14/clip-of-the-day-dont-sing-me-the-blues-by-miles-davis/ http://www.crosswordbebop.com/2009/11/14/clip-of-the-day-dont-sing-me-the-blues-by-miles-davis/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:12:42 +0000 admin http://www.crosswordbebop.com/?p=1737 Google Analytics tells me that a number of people visit the archives looking for information on Miles Davis. In this new incarnation of Crossword Bebop, I have a noble dream of playing at least one cut from every Miles Davis album. That’s going to take a while, but that’s ok. This is a cut from the album “Boppin’ the Blues,” released in 1946, when Miles Davis was all of 20 years old.

Miles Davis Boppin' the Blues

I give you “Don’t Sing Me The Blues” by Miles Davis. Click on the player to hear it.


Dont Sing Me the Blues – Miles Davis


]]> http://www.crosswordbebop.com/2009/11/14/clip-of-the-day-dont-sing-me-the-blues-by-miles-davis/feed/ 0 Clip of the Day – Stormy Weather by Lena Horne http://www.crosswordbebop.com/2009/11/11/clip-of-the-day-stormy-weather-by-lena-horne/ http://www.crosswordbebop.com/2009/11/11/clip-of-the-day-stormy-weather-by-lena-horne/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:09:36 +0000 admin http://www.crosswordbebop.com/?p=1718 Horne or Olin, Olin or Horne? That’s the crossword composer’s dilemma as to how to clue Lena.

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Robert W. Harris went for Lena Horne this time. I’ve played clips by Lena Horne before, but this is her signature tune.

Don’t know why
There’s no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain’t together
Keeps raining all the time

Life is bare
Gloom and misery everywhere
Stormy weather
Just can’t get my poor self together
It’s rainin’ all the time

Since he went away
The blues walked in and met me
If he stays away
Ol’ rocking chair will get me
All I do is pray
The Lord above will let me
Walk in the sun once more

Can’t go on
Everything I had is gone
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain’t together
It’s raining all the time

I walk around heavy hearted and sad
Night comes around
And I’m still feeling bad
Rain’s pourin’ down
Blindin’ every hope I had
This pitterin’ patterin’
Beatin and spattering
Drives me mad
This misery’s just too much for me

Can’t go on
Everything I have is gone
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain’t together
It’s rainin’ all the time
Keeps rainin’ all the time


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